"Location-based services and U.S. retail are showing the greatest progress capturing value from data and analytics. Location-based services are capturing up to 60% of data and analytics value today …
FBI backs CIA view that Russia intervened to help Trump win election
"FBI Director James B. Comey and Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. are in agreement with a CIA assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election in part to help Donald Trump …
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Republican National Committee Security Foiled Russian Hackers
"Russian hackers tried to penetrate the computer networks of the Republican National Committee, using the same techniques that allowed them to infiltrate its Democratic counterpart, according to U.S. …
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Russian Hackers Penetrated Joint Staff in 2015
"Russian hackers struck at the heart of the U.S. military in August 2015 by seizing the e-mail system used by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, CBS News has learned. Then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Martin …
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10 major 2016 cyber attacks and what they mean for cyber security
"We are nearing the end of 2016, a year of many landmarks in cyber security, with record-breaking cyber attacks almost on a monthly basis. CBR sorts through the major attacks to tell you what …
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0-days hitting Fedora and Ubuntu open desktops to a world of hurt
"If you run a mainstream distribution of Linux on a desktop computer, there's a good chance security researcher Chris Evans can hijack it when you do nothing more than open or even browse a specially …
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U.S. election agency breached by hackers after vote
"The researchers said that the Russian-speaking hacker had an unusual business model, in that he scanned for ways to break into all manner of businesses and other entities and then moved rapidly to …
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Intelligence officials refuse to brief House panel on Russian hacking
"House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes on Wednesday blasted as 'unacceptable' the refusal of the FBI, CIA and National Intelligence directors to brief his panel on the Russian cyber …
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Newly Uncovered Site Suggests NSA Exploits for Direct Sale
"The Shadow Brokers—a hacker or group of hackers that stole computer exploits from the National Security Agency—has been quiet for some time. After their auction and crowd-funded approach for selling …
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Two APTs Used Same Zero-Day to Target Individuals in Europe
"Researchers at Microsoft have observed two separate advanced persistent threat (APT) actors that leveraged the same Flash Player zero-day vulnerability to spy on Turkish citizens living in Turkey and …
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